The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
Gravy
Born in 1976 in Pharr, Texas, Gladys Martinez grew up with great respect for corn and the savvy that made it possible…
"Anytime you look into my work and you see a simple A-frame house with a porch on it, that’s my grandmother’s house. "
"As soon as I tasted Frank’s cornbread madeleines, I knew one day I was going to put them on my menu."
When I told my dad I'd discovered polenta, he said, “Oh, that’s just cornmeal mush.”
In the nineteenth-century rural South, sharecroppers grew corn, sold corn, ate corn, and became sick—all because of a…
Rebecca Lauck Cleary leads us through the maze of corn-made consumables.
Native Americans memorialized and celebrated the prominent role of corn in their lives through stories passed from…
Corn possesses that power to tell the story of a people. Even when rendered as snacks. Especially when eaten as snacks.
It wasn’t a recipe for creamed corn; it was her corn, made by her hands.
